Sentence examples for he kept guard over from inspiring English sources

Eventually he succumbed to the poison and was turned to stone, never able to return home, but still he kept guard over the cave's entrance.

These effected peace with Hiero both for themselves and for those who had invoked their aid, so as to prevent the Romans from crossing into the island; and under the leadership of Hanno they kept guard over the strait and the city.

If he was not there, his familiar spirits Yucca, Canna and Dahlia, short-tempered dachshunds, kept guard over the turf.Save for short spells at Rugby School and Cambridge, Mr Lloyd lived at Great Dixter all his life.

One evening a few weeks after his family's little festival of sugar, Nawab was sitting with the watchman who kept guard over the grain stores at Nurpur Harouni.

Yet Hanno would not await them when they approached, but sailed away promptly to Carthage and kept guard over the city.

The Romans both kept guard over their own land and sent a respectable force to Sicily with Postumius Albinus and Quintus Aemilius.

But before that, I had 10 very strange days living with an Afghan family, assisted by two Taliban fighters who kept guard over me (these were new guards - I changed hands a number of times throughout my incarceration).

Leaving Milo behind in Italy to keep guard over Tarentum and the other positions, he himself sailed away, after letting it be understood that he would soon return.

A monk now keeps guard over a small chapel in Aksum where Ethiopians insist that the ark resides.

I stationed my bade ships in the river Aegyptus, and bade my men stay by them and keep guard over them, while sent out scouts to reconnoitre from every point of vantage.

At Mr. Bloomberg's home -- a five-story, $5 million limestone town house at 17 East 79th Street -- the special round-the-clock police detail that typically keeps guard over the mayor-elect has already begun.